In another Inside Higher Education piece published today, on the questions that events at the University of Virginia raise for how university Boards are run, Neem notes:

“The common theme of many of these pamphlets [on how Boards should be run] is that governance boards should play the role of activists by taking a more strident role in making academic decisions about curriculum and programs and challenging shared governance . . . Ultimately, this is about redistributing power upwards, toward management and away from the faculty who carry out the university’s research and teaching mission.”